Keir Starmer tells @LBC people in Hartlepool are worried about “jobs, jobs, jobs”.

He says the fight for the seat was “always going to be tough” after 2019.

*Jeremy Corbyn won the seat twice in 2017 and 2019.
Nick Ferrari puts the Survation poll to Sir Keir that the Tories have a 17 point lead in Hartlepool.

But he admits that “nobody is particularly interested in the details” of wallpaper-gate.
Starmer - on Survation/GMB poll: "I'm well aware that in Hartlepool, we've got to earn every vote."

Whilst he said people weren't interested in details of PM's flat, he says "general sense" there "is one rule for them and another rule for everybody else" is "breaking through".
Sir Keir: "I have not met many people who have had their flat or house refurbished and don't know who has paid for it.

"He (the PM) knows the answer to that question and he's not being straight."
Sir Keir hedges on whether Labour will support a return of foreign holidays.

"Last year, the situation was chopping and changing almost every week through the summer...

"We can't go down that path again... We have got to be very, very careful..."

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28 Apr
Keir Starmer goes first with “bodies pile high” comment at the end of October.

PM on the record, in the Commons, says he didn’t make the comment.

Starmer says it would be a breach of the ministerial code if PM is wrong and knowingly misled Commons in his reply. High stakes.
Starmer then accuses PM of “nipping out of meetings” during start of the pandemic to sort the redecoration of his flat.

Moves on to flat. Asks whether Lord Brownlow donated £58k for flat refurb.

PM doesn’t answer the question.
Starmer draws in Electoral Commission. “Incredibly serious” that they have launched investigation. Does PM believe any rules were broken?

“No, I don’t” replies the PM. Insists people care about other things, especially when he has said “umpteen times” he paid for the wallpaper.
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Caller Jeremy wants to know why Boris Johnson didn't listen to her view to close the borders at the start of the first wave last year.

PP says decision based on Sage advice.

"We all have active debate. We all air our views, we have taken a collective decision."
Next up Alan, a PC forced to retire due to injury.

"Why are the police not be prioritised for the vaccine?"

Priti Patel says some forces have "informal arrangements" with Clinical Commissioning Groups to get hold of the vaccine.
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12 Feb
New: City Hall quango London & Partners has held talks with company linked to oppression of Uygurs.

iFlytek provides voice recognition technology to police in China’s Xinxiang province. It’s on a list of companies banned by US.

MIT and Rutgers uni severed ties.

But not L&P.
Detailed with a quarterly report published last April, L&P revealed it had a "new significant project" with iFlytek.

But in 2017, Human Rights Watch found the company had been working with Chinese police to develop technology intended to identify targeted voices in phone calls.
.@TomTugendhat - chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee - told @LBC he thinks @SadiqKhan should "reject" the company.

Full quote:
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11 Feb
Health Secretary Matt Hancock on healthcare reforms says "now exactly the right time" to help NHS staff help patients "with less bureaucracy".

"Some of the rules set in legislation need to change and I'm glad the reception to these proposals has been so positive," he says.
Ferrari: Yes, but when will nurses get their pay rise?

Matt Hancock: "I've got to wait for the independent pay review body."
Matt Hancock says "we have all been saying the same thing, that there is uncertainty".

"What we all know is that in time of pandemic there is uncertainty. We have lived with that for the past year and people know that."
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Keir Starmer says Oxford University has found 33 countries have tougher border restrictions than the UK.

PM’s response is that we have one of the toughest regimes in the world.
PM says in usual times 250k people come into UK on any day. That’s down to 20K. Of which 5K are supplying vital goods.
PM says we are “going to have get used to the idea of vaccinating and then re vaccinating in the autumn.”
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9 Feb
Matt Hancock tells the Commons nearly three in four people aged between 70 and 74 have received their first dose of the vaccine.

Tells MPs “we must protect... the great advances we have made” by ensuring new variants do not spread in the UK.
New system of health measures at the border a “significant challenge”.

Taking advice from Australian colleagues. Admits it’s “difficult time” for airlines and ports.
Three elements to new system:

1). Hotel quarantine testing and enforcement. Any returning residents will have to quarantine in a hotel room. Book online and pay £1,750.

*Govt not paying upfront.

4,600 rooms reserved across 16 hotels. Security to ensure compliance.
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